Lecture 3 - Creation Stories

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School

University of Toronto Scarborough

Department

Classical Studies

Course

CLAA05H3

Professor

Frayne

Semester

Fall

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Lecture 3Creation Stories Wednesday September 28 2011 105 PM Three texts Pyramid Texts Coffin Texts and The Book of the Dead Two basic types of Creation Stories In Egypt the Story that came from the city of Heliopolis god of the sun Re with Atum Nine gods EGYPT Nut sky goddessHapy god of the Nile Shu holds up the sky Ta earth ground Pet sky Ra or Re sun god Psunusennes I Cenotaph of Sety at Abydos Four stone pillars one at each cardinal point Courtyard of Thutmoses III Poetical Stele Pyramid Text Konosso Stele of Amenhotep III The King is Conceived at Night in Nun watery abyss before creation From the Pyramid Texts HeliopolisIunu the sun city where the creation myth started Creation happened at night